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Name : Richard Edson
Profession : Actor
Born : 1954 New Rochelle, New York
Nationality : American
Occupation : Actor and musician
Biography

 Richard Edson Detailed Biography

Richard Edson (born 1954) is an American actor and musician.

Edson was born in New Rochelle, New York. He was the earliest drummer of Sonic Youth, from 1981 to 1982. During that time he also played drums for Konk.

After quitting that group, Edson put the skins aside and turned to acting. He's appeared in over 35 movies and is probably best remembered for his portrayal as one of two disreputable parking garage attendants in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, who responds with "What country do you think this is?" to Ferris' condescending "Do you speak English?" Edson is also fondly remembered as the affable Eddie in Jim Jarmusch's cult film Stranger Than Paradise, who quips to Willie (played by John Lurie) "You know, it's funny; You go to some place new and everything just looks the same." He also had roles in The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Do the Right Thing, Good Morning, Vietnam and Platoon. In 1995, Edson appeared in the third season finale of Homicide: Life on the Street. Edson acted the lead role in three films directed by Raphael Nadjari: The Shade (1999), I am Josh Polonski's Brother (2001) and Apartment #5c (2002).

In 2003, he appeared in the music video for Cave In's single, "Anchor." Edson played the central character of the video, a depressed man walking down the street with his feet encased in cement blocks.

Edson appeared in a 2007 TV commercial for The Travelers Companies Inc., in which he portrays the human personification of risk.

References

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External links

Richard Edson at the Internet Movie Database

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Sonic Youth

Kim Gordon · Thurston Moore · Lee Ranaldo · Steve Shelley

Ann DeMarinis · Richard Edson · Jim Sclavunos · Bob Bert · Jim O'Rourke · Mark Ibold

Albums

Confusion Is Sex · Bad Moon Rising · Evol · Sister · Daydream Nation · Goo · Dirty · Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star · Washing Machine · A Thousand Leaves · NYC Ghosts & Flowers · Murray Street · Sonic Nurse · Rather Ripped · The Eternal (Upcoming in 2009)

EPs

Sonic Youth · Kill Yr Idols · Master-Dik · Whores Moaning · TV Shit · Silver Session for Jason Knuth · In the Fishtank 9

Compilations

Sonic Death · Screaming Fields of Sonic Love · Made in USA · The Destroyed Room: B-Sides and Rarities · Hits Are for Squares

As Ciccone Youth

The Whitey Album

SYR series

SYR1: Anagrama · SYR2: Slaapkamers Met Slagroom · SYR3: Invito Al Ĉielo · SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century · SYR5 · SYR6: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui · SYR7: J'Accuse Ted Hughes · SYR8: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth

Official Bootlegs

The Walls Have Ears · Stick Me Donna Majick Momma · 4 Tunna Brix · Goo Demos · Hold That Tiger · Live at the Continental Club · Cotton Crown · Blastic Scene · Live in Bremen · Live in Venlo

Singles

"Death Valley '69" · "Flower/Halloween" · "Flower/Satan Is Boring" · "Halloween II" · "Starpower" · "Into the Groove(y)" · "Teen Age Riot" ·

"Touch Me I'm Sick" · "Kool Thing" · "Disappearer" · "Dirty Boots" · "100%" · "Youth Against Fascism" · "Sugar Kane" · "Drunken Butterfly" ·

"Bull in the Heather" · "Superstar" · "The Diamond Sea" · "Little Trouble Girl" · "Sunday" · "Nevermind (What Was It Anyway)" ·

"Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream" · "Unmade Bed" · "Rather Ripped Album Sampler" · "Helen Lundeberg/Eyeliner" · "Incinerate" · "Beautiful Plateau"

Videos

Goo · 1991: The Year Punk Broke · Screaming Fields of Sonic Love · Corporate Ghost: The Videos: 1990–2002

Related articles

Discography · Ciccone Youth · Coco Hayley Gordon Moore

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